The game changer was the virus but Trump never changed. He continued to tell people what they wanted to hear, masks and social distancing are optional. Open up the schools and businesses. We don't need more tests. We've turned the corner. The virus will be gone by summer. The virus will by election day. We'll have a vaccine by election day. He told America what they wanted to hear, and the results are over 217,000 deaths, the virus is surging in most states, deaths rising, and epidemiologists predicting a 2nd wave bigger than first.
When an epidemic hits, the one most important factor in controlling it is unifying the nation in following preventive methods and Donald Trump has fought against this from day one with lies and misinformation. It has become increasing clear to voters on both sides that Trump is making it worse not better.
Yeah, just like they are in Europe today, huh?
We don't live in a kingdom. Trump can't force anybody to do anything. Foci told a Fox reporter (in regards to the Woodhead report) that all pertinent information discussed was properly relayed to the public. Furthermore Fauci and Birx both had many addresses to the public in the Presidents news briefings.
Population-wide lockdown orders are "such a dramatic inversion of the concept of liberty in a free society as to be nearly presumptively unconstitutional" wrote U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV
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No, force was not needed, just leadership. When the leadership in a nation is not united in there response to an epidemic which was the case in the US and a number of European nations, controlling it becomes impossible. In South Korea and Japan, the government laid out clearly what was needed to stop the virus. The national government set an example for the people, worked with local leaders, created advertising campaign, called up tens of thousands in the military to assist local governments. In South Korea, with a population of 60 million the total number deaths is less than what occurs in the US in single day. Japan has had 1600 deaths, South Korea about 400 while in the US we have had over 217,000. To a lesser extent their success has been repeated in Hong Kong, Thailand, Viet Nam, Australia, New Zealand, and dozens of other courtiers.
The countries that have been the lease successful at control the virus, such as the US, Brazil, Spain, Italy, and Mexico all have one thing in common. National leadership has either been deeply divided, non-responsive, or hostile toward prevention.